With Juan Soto and the New York Mets playing at Fenway Park on Tuesday for the second game in a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox, the slugger's free agency was once again in the headlines.

Soto is adjusting to a new team after spending the 2024 season with the New York Yankees. Soto is also entering this season with immense pressure after signing an MLB-record 15-year, $765 million deal to join the Mets in free agency.

Mets manager Carlos Mendoza wouldn’t get into specifics on any conversion he had with slugger Juan Soto after a lack of hustle left him with a single rather than extra bases in New York’s series opener at Boston.

Yankees skipper Aaron Boone presented Juan Soto, Clay Holmes, and Desi Druschel, his former assistant pitching coach, with their 2024 ALCS rings this past weekend.

Mendoza attributed Soto’s postgame comments Monday to “frustration.”

But the attention on him got ratcheted up over the weekend when he returned to Yankee Stadium and heard all kinds of things yelled at him by Pinstripes fans. There were also questions about his hustle that popped up there and on Monday when he stared down a ball he thought was a home run and had to settle for a single.

ESPN broadcaster Karl Ravech raised eyebrows when he claimed on “Sunday Night Baseball” that New York Mets star Juan Soto chartered flights to road games.

Mets slugger Juan Soto has sparked criticism for a lack of hustle over the last couple of nights. One day after not breaking swiftly out of the batter’s box to first base against the Yankees, Soto was again slow against the Boston Red Sox on Monday night when he hit a ball off the Green Monster in the sixth inning.